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Thomas Jefferson, Black Women, and Male Orangutans – Abbeville Institute

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Jefferson’s reference in Query XIV of Notes on the State of Virginia to male orangutans’ preference for black women is often cited as evidence of his unabashed racism and Jefferson’s sheer lack of criticality and his credulity. Jefferson writes: Flowing hair, a more elegant symmetry of form, their own judgment in favour of the whites, declared by their preference of...
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Thomas Jefferson, Black Women, and Male Orangutans – Abbeville Institute

Jefferson’s reference in Query XIV of Notes on the State of Virginia to male orangutans’ preference for black women is often cited as evidence of his unabashed racism and Jefferson’s sheer lack of criticality and his credulity. Jefferson writes: Flowing hair, a more elegant symmetry of form, their own judgment in favour of the whites, declared by their preference of...

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My earliest existing letter — Thomas Jefferson

[This is from my letter to John Harvie, January 14, 1760, to explain to him the benefits of going to college at William & Mary in Williamsburg. Mr. Harvie was my guardian as my father died when I was 14 years old. I was 16 years old when I wrote this letter.] I was at Colo. Peter Randolph

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